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The passage stays in your browser. Bracketed answers remain forced in every mode.
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Bracketed words or phrases are always selected before the chosen automatic rule.
Use a whole number from 2 to 50; 5–8 is a common starting range.
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Separate targets with commas, semicolons, or new lines.
Use 1–30 distinct terms; every occurrence of a selected term becomes a blank.
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A word bank lowers recall demand; no bank gives students only passage context.
Use a short class or version label when you need repeatable reprints.
The default title is ready to print; change it for a class, unit, or topic.
Keep the direction specific to the support students will see.
Zero is neutral and begins counting at the start of the passage.
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Three letters is the default content-word filter.
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Separate entries with commas, semicolons, or new lines. Blank is neutral.
Zero is neutral and leaves the result uncapped.
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The default fixed line keeps answer length hidden.
Use 4–30 characters; longer lines leave more writing space.
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On links each worksheet blank to its answer-ledger row.
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Off is neutral for ordinary vocabulary matching.
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On preserves the original clue-bearing punctuation.
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Off keeps one bank choice per normalized answer.
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Off keeps printed and DOCX output student-ready.
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Student worksheet

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Name: ____________________Date: ____________

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Word bank

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A cloze activity removes selected words or phrases from a passage and asks the reader to restore them from context. The surrounding grammar and meaning remain visible, so a blank can test vocabulary, sentence structure, topic knowledge, or careful reading depending on which text is removed.

Blank selection determines what the worksheet measures. Removing every fifth word samples the whole passage mechanically. Removing a vocabulary list concentrates practice on chosen terms. Removing the most frequent content words emphasizes repetition in the passage, while bracketed answers let a teacher force an exact word or phrase regardless of the automatic mode.

Blank density
The number of blanks divided by the number of passage words. More blanks leave fewer clues.
Word bank
A set of possible answers. An ordered bank gives position clues; a shuffled bank reduces them; no bank requires recall.
Selected deletion
Teacher-chosen terms or phrases removed for a specific learning purpose.

Difficulty depends on more than density. A rare technical term is harder than a familiar connector, a multiword phrase removes more context than one short word, and answer-length blanks can reveal more than fixed-width lines. Repeated answers may make a bank easier because one choice fits several places, while removing attached punctuation may eliminate useful grammar clues.

Passage quality still sets the ceiling. A worksheet cannot repair an unclear, inaccurate, inaccessible, or poorly leveled source. Read the student version without the key and check that each intended answer is recoverable from the text or the stated support.

Cloze work shows how a learner uses the available clues; it does not by itself prove full comprehension of the passage. Follow it with explanation, discussion, or another task when understanding beyond word restoration matters.

How to Use This Tool:

Begin with a clean passage and decide whether the blanks should sample the text or target specific learning.

  1. Paste the Passage text or load one plain-text TXT file no larger than 1 MB. Put square brackets around any answer that must become a blank in every mode.
  2. Choose Every nth word, Vocabulary list, Most frequent words, or Manual bracket syntax only. Complete the interval, target list, or frequent-term settings for that path.
  3. Choose a shuffled bank, passage-order bank, or no bank under Student support. Keep the same Shuffle seed when a shuffled version must be reproduced.
  4. Adjust lead words, the blank cap, blank width, punctuation, case sensitivity, duplicate bank entries, and numbering only when they serve the lesson purpose.
  5. Review the worksheet, answer ledger, teacher checks, and blank distribution. If no blanks are created, add bracketed answers or correct the selected mode’s interval, vocabulary, or frequency settings.

Interpreting Results:

Use blank density as a review cue, not a grade-level standard. The generated teacher check labels density below 8% as light, 8% through 22% as balanced, above 22% through 35% as demanding, and above 35% as very dense.

  • A missing vocabulary target was not found under the selected case rule. Correct the target or passage before assuming coverage.
  • A reached blank cap means later eligible terms remained visible. Raise the cap only if those additional blanks are intentional.
  • An ordered word bank reveals passage order, while a shuffled bank is repeatable for the same seed. No bank removes that support completely.

Technical Details:

The passage is tokenized into words, numbers, bracketed phrases, and unchanged text between them. Apostrophes and hyphens may remain inside a word. A bracketed phrase counts the words it contains but becomes one blank and one answer-ledger row.

Formula Core

Blank density measures how much of the tokenized passage has been removed.

D= BW ×100%

B is the number of generated blanks and W is the passage word count. A phrase contributes its number of words to W but only one to B. The displayed check rounds density to one decimal place; selection uses the unrounded value, and the very-dense warning is triggered only when D is greater than 35%.

Transformation Core

Bracketed answers are selected first. Remaining tokens follow the chosen automatic rule, and the maximum-blank cap is applied in passage order after selection.

Mode Selection rule Important boundary
Every nth word After the kept lead words, select positions whose offset is divisible by the interval. Interval 2 to 50; lead words 0 to 50.
Vocabulary list Match single terms and longest multiword phrases; phrases are considered before single words. Matching is case-insensitive unless case sensitivity is enabled.
Most frequent words Exclude built-in and added stop words and terms below the minimum length, then rank by frequency, first occurrence, and alphabetical order. Select 1 to 30 distinct terms; each occurrence of a selected term becomes eligible.
Manual only Select bracketed words or phrases and leave all other text visible. At least one bracketed answer is needed to produce a worksheet.

For nth-word mode, a non-bracketed word at position n is selected when it comes after the kept lead words L and its offset is an exact multiple of interval I.

n>L ∧ (n−L)modI=0

Fixed-width blanks use 4 to 30 underscores. Answer-length blanks use the answer’s character count, with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 30. Numbering is optional. Removing punctuation strips attached opening and closing marks around selected answers; it does not rewrite punctuation elsewhere.

The bank begins with answers in passage order. Duplicate removal compares normalized answers under the selected case rule. A shuffled bank uses the seed to produce the same order from the same answers, while recall mode emits no bank. A maximum of 0 means uncapped; otherwise the accepted cap is 1 through 300.

The passage accepts up to 50,000 characters. Vocabulary targets accept 4,000 characters, added stop words 2,000, the seed 80, the title 90, and student instructions 180. Validation stops when the passage is empty, has no recognized words, or the chosen rules create no blanks.

Privacy and Accuracy Notes:

The passage and TXT file are read in the browser and are not sent to a server by this worksheet generator. A TXT file must be plain text and no larger than 1 MB.

Automatic selection cannot judge whether a blank is instructionally appropriate, ambiguous, or recoverable for a particular learner. Review the student copy, bank, answer key, phrase handling, repeated answers, and attached punctuation before printing or sharing it.

Worked Examples:

Every third word

For “One two three four five six” with interval 3 and no kept lead words, the third and sixth words become blanks. That produces 2 blanks from 6 words, or 33.3% density. An ordered bank contains “three” followed by “six.”

Vocabulary phrase

In “The water cycle repeats and condensation forms,” targets water cycle and condensation create two blanks. The two-word target stays together as one blank and one ledger entry, while its two words still count toward the seven-word density denominator.